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The Contribution Revolution

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Mark in Online Community

The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” examples like Skype and Wikipedia but no open source software examples. Given Intuit’s proprietary nature I guess I [...]

crowd sourcing, Harvard Business Review, Intuit, Scott Cook 1 Comment Read More

Barracuda Tries to Gobble-Up SourceFire

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Mark in Featured Articles, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Online Community, Open Source

Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun’s billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. [...]

ClamAV, Commerical, Community Leverage, MySQL, Open Source, Snort, SoureFire, Sun, Zimbra 5 Comments Read More

Triangle Tweetup 2.0 Tonight

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Mark in Online Community

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. there’s a Triangle Tweetup at the Capstrat in Raleigh (near the RBC Center) to discuss Twitter and to network with other Twitter users. Here’s the venue: Capstrat, Inc. 1201 Edwards Mill Road, First Floor 102 Raleigh, NC 27607 http://www.capstrat.com More information can be found on the wiki. If you want to [...]

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